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After last nights SWUX meetup I figured I’d share some more links on Google’s Material design that I’ve found since the last meetup I attended.

Articles:

An exploration in Material Design by Arthur Bodolec @ Feed.ly – good information about the Z order and a nicely polished example.

We Are Living In A Material World And I Am A Material Girl – Trello – Great article that shows before and after material, and most interesting thing for me was how Trello got rid of the navigation drawer.

Instagram with Material Design concept by Miroslaw Stanek – some great code samples.

Examples of Material apps – there are several of these kind of sights two of the best are:

pttrns.com – has a new beta section showing material/lollipop Android apps. What’s great is you can filter by the type of screen you’re looking for.

materialup – showcases material apps and websites but also material concepts and animations

Tools

Material Palette, pick two of the material colours and this site will generate palette of 8 colours ready to drop in to your app/project

Personally I’m really excited about the new design language/framework/guide from Google to be all encompassing across web, mobile, tablet, TV. I talked recently at a local meetup about some of the cool things in material design followed by a good debate about what material design is about. The main place to head to is google.com/design

Here’s some other resources:

Visual:

Short video intro to showcasing some of the material visual elements and interactions

Over the weekend I was catching up on Android Design in Action videos / app and thought I’d share a couple of my favourite ones as I often have discussions about both design/brand consistency and app start up screens. Each video is ~30mins but if you can’t spare that then hit up the links to g+ posts below you’ll see links to slides.